Banned militant group Lashkar-e- Tayiba's founder Hafez Muhammad Saeed on Tuesday spoke to Syed Ali Shah Geelani to inquire about the health of the hardline Kashmiri leader who is suffering from kidney cancer.

Saeed called Geelani in Jammu and Kashmir and "expressed his concern" over the health of the Hurriyat leader, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an organisation founded by Saeed and seen as the parent of the LeT, said in a release from Lahore.

The LeT founder's name tops the list of wanted men for the 2001 terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament, forwarded by India to Pakistan.

Sayeed spoke to Geelani as officials of the two countries held the first meeting of the Joint Mechanism on Terrorism in Islamabad, during which the two sides were expected to discuss cooperation relating to wanted persons.

While the Pakistan government banned LeT and the Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2001, the JuD has been kept under a "watch list" by the Pakistan Interior Ministry. The United States, however, has proscribed the outfit.